Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials (New Directions in Civil Engineering)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 29, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780849382840
Subjects: Building construction & materials; Stress & fracture; Fracture,; Concrete Materials; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Material Science; Engineering - Civil; Technology / Material Science; Technology : Engineering - Civil; Concrete; Elastic analysis (Engineering); Fracture Mechanics
First sentence: Fracture mechanics is a failure theory that 1. determines material failure by energy criteria, possibly in conjunction with strength (or yield) criteria, and 2. considers failure to be propagating throughout the structure rather than simultaneous throughout the entire failure zone or surface.